The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, Volume 4William Miller, 1808 |
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... death can be , I am immortal , and a God to thee . If I would kill thee now , thy fate's so low , That I must stoop ere I can give the blow . But mine is fixed so far above thy crown , That all thy men , Piled on thy back , can never ...
... death can be , I am immortal , and a God to thee . If I would kill thee now , thy fate's so low , That I must stoop ere I can give the blow . But mine is fixed so far above thy crown , That all thy men , Piled on thy back , can never ...
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... death prevent , And made imperfect bellowings as it went . Then all the trumpets victory did sound , And yet their clangors in our shouts were drown'd . [ A confused noise within . Boab . The alarm - bell rings from our Alhambra walls ...
... death prevent , And made imperfect bellowings as it went . Then all the trumpets victory did sound , And yet their clangors in our shouts were drown'd . [ A confused noise within . Boab . The alarm - bell rings from our Alhambra walls ...
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... death stands guarding the forbidden place . Gom . To dare that death , I will approach yet nigher ; Thus , -wert thou compassed in with circling fire . [ They fight . Boab . Disarm them both ; if they resist you , kill . [ ALMANZOR , in ...
... death stands guarding the forbidden place . Gom . To dare that death , I will approach yet nigher ; Thus , -wert thou compassed in with circling fire . [ They fight . Boab . Disarm them both ; if they resist you , kill . [ ALMANZOR , in ...
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... death ? Obeyed as sovereign by thy subjects be , But know , that I alone am king of me . I am as free as nature first made man , Ere the base laws of servitude began , When wild in woods the noble savage ran . Boab . Since , then , no ...
... death ? Obeyed as sovereign by thy subjects be , But know , that I alone am king of me . I am as free as nature first made man , Ere the base laws of servitude began , When wild in woods the noble savage ran . Boab . Since , then , no ...
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... death must be the brave Almanzor's doom ? From Africa I drew him to your aid , And for his succour have his life betrayed . Boab . Is this the Almanzor whom at Fez you knew , When first their swords the Xeriff brothers drew ? Abdal ...
... death must be the brave Almanzor's doom ? From Africa I drew him to your aid , And for his succour have his life betrayed . Boab . Is this the Almanzor whom at Fez you knew , When first their swords the Xeriff brothers drew ? Abdal ...
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